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Topic: How to monitor server health with iStat and an iPhone

iStat is a simple monitoring tool which allows to know the status of your iPhone and the general health of both Linux and Mac OS servers. The client is available only for iPhone at very low price (.99$ or .79€) while server-side software is totally free.This is what the app shows about your iPhone:

You can easily install iStat daemon on your CentOS Linux using the provided RPM:

Now you have to edit /etc/istat.conf for settings and preferences. You need to set network_port and server_code at least to have it working. iStat is able to monitor only one network interface per time through monitor_net option.I used monitor_disk and disk_rename_label options to list the needed partitions in human readable format.This is my config file (my code is obscured of course):